# The best traditional British dishes

The classic savoury dishes of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that every British food guide tells visitors to try. Puddings and cakes are left for another list.

- 26 votes · 17 items
- Aug 15, 2024 · knitter.slow
- https://even.best/en/l/13/the-best-traditional-british-dishes

## Top 15

1. **Fish and chips** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Battered cod or haddock with thick chips, salt and malt vinegar; sold in British chippies since the 1860s.
2. **Full English breakfast** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Bacon, sausages, eggs, baked beans, grilled tomato, mushrooms, black pudding and toast.
3. **Shepherd's pie** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Minced lamb with onions and carrots under a crust of mashed potato (with beef it is cottage pie).
4. **Chicken tikka masala** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Grilled chicken in a creamy spiced tomato sauce, popularised by British curry houses and often called a national dish.
5. **Scotch egg** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat, breaded and deep fried.
6. **Steak and kidney pie** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Beef and kidney stewed in gravy and baked under a pastry lid.
7. **Haggis, neeps and tatties** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Scotland's national dish: sheep's offal with oatmeal and spices, with swede and potatoes; star of Burns Night.
8. **Cornish pasty** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — D-shaped pastry with beef, potato, swede and onion; has PGI protection since 2011.
9. **Sunday roast** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Roast beef, lamb or chicken with roast potatoes, vegetables, gravy and Yorkshire puddings, eaten on Sundays.
10. **Bangers and mash** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Sausages with mashed potato and onion gravy.
11. **Ploughman's lunch** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Cold plate of cheddar or Stilton, crusty bread, pickle, apple and pickled onions; a pub classic.
12. **Beef Wellington** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Beef fillet coated in mushroom duxelles, wrapped in puff pastry and baked.
13. **Toad in the hole** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter, served with gravy.
14. **Lancashire hotpot** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lamb and onion stew topped with sliced potatoes and slow baked.
15. **Welsh rarebit** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Toast covered in a sauce of melted cheese, ale and mustard, grilled.
16. **Pie and mash** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — East London classic: minced beef pie with mash and green parsley 'liquor'.
17. **Ulster fry** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Northern Ireland's fry-up with soda bread and potato farls.

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